Mchl

This is pretty much what BBCode tutorial would cover with the small addition that contents of tags should be passed to highlight_string() function

Here you go: highlight_string

You're free to report it to moderators.

Ok... so I messed up quotes with braces {} and PHP code with JS code. And to make it more elusive, it doesn't happen everytime...

I got this with quotes in NB 6.8. I can swear to Rasmus it wasn't working this way in 6.7 and below.

Intellisense is actually Microsoft's trademarked technology AFAIK, so you won't find it anywhere except MS IDEs. Anyway, arguments you present are like advice to use '' instead of "" for strings, because they're a bit faster. It's not going to make your script execute noticeably faster though, because most time is spend elsewhere. Same with IDE. What good is instant file opening, when I need to find missing ; or } or) now and then AFTER I have saved the file and reloaded it in browser? In NB you have these (and other) errors highlighted the instant you make them. That's where time is saved.

Did you ever calculate if you earn more time not having this 0.5-1s lag on opening files than you loose by not having features like code hinting, instant syntax error finding, built-in VC tools etc.. ?

I've yet to see a reason why would I want to use vim (other than being able to say I use it, just like all other cool kids do). It seems like quite a different approach than we're accustomed to see in IDEs... Ok.. downloaded, installed, now browsing the wiki

I wonder how much truth is there in the story I've read somewhere of a guy, who created a working JavaScript IDE in Excel

NetBeans FTW

http://code.openark.org/blog/?p=10 Really nice blog entry about all these charsets, collations and how to use them (and what to take care about) Could be added to sticky above.

Just to let you all know NetBeans 6.5 is now Generally Available. So if you were afraid of beta/RC versions, now it's good time to grab the final release and see if you like it